It
turns out that the massive tropical storm that was supposed to come and wreck
us didn't actually come close to devastating our area. Maybe a couple trees
fell over and some old fences too. What Pearland got was some clouds and a
foggy blanket of mist with some decent wind and a couple hours of hard rain. It
seemed like just another day's weather in the bay area and I loved it.
For
the most part our week was nonstop trying to contact the 50 trillion referrals
we have in our area. It seems like everyone and their mother responds to the
church's ads in our area, but 1/10 people actually give us some sort of
response. It seems like two minutes after someone gives us their name, phone
number, address, email address, date of birth, political preference, color of
their shirt, social security number, favorite food, etc. and answer a list of
questions to gauge their interest, they completely forget about it and lose
interest in meeting with us. It's not possible to respond to the ads on
accident but it seems that no one remembers taking 10 hours out of the day to
input all that information and sign up for a discussion with us. Like I said,
there are a ton of people in this situation, no exaggeration there are 200+
like this.
One
funny experience we had the other day was when we talked to the Peterson's at
church. Bro. Peterson is the first counselor in the mission presidency and they
love meeting with and feeding all the missionaries. They randomly asked if we
wanted a half eaten cake and we could get it from them after church. Turns out,
the cake was horrible, and I think Sister Peterson knew that and took pity
because she texted us as some point and asked if we wanted to have breakfast
with their family and watch general conference with them.
I'm
living the dream right now and I'm super excited to keep sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with others and continue to be a representative of Christ and share
His light with the world.
-Elder
Thompson
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